Crochet Face Mask Smiley Ball Emoji

04/22/2020 Amigurumi, Crochet, Fiber Arts

Crochet Face Mask Smiley Ball Emoji

Crochet a face mask smiley ball emoji to help you get through this time! Plus this amigurumi is a good reminder to take your face mask out with you!

How to Make

This little crochet face mask toy is relatively easy to make if you know how to crochet a single crochet stitch. It also helps if you know how to crochet in the round. But if not, I have a step-by-step tutorial video showing you how to make this amigurumi. By the way, amigurumi means crochet or knitted stuffed toy in Japanese.

The written pattern instructions for our little smiley ball emoji below will have detailed information on making this little guy, or girl. Overall, we’ll start with a magic ring, and then single crochet stitches in the round. We’ll increase the stitches every round. At one point we’ll just continue working in a spiral round. Then we decrease stitches every round.

Next we’ll add eyes to our smiley ball emoji and stuff it with polyester fiber fill. Then we’ll add a simple crochet covering to our stuffed toy.

Supplies Needed

I am using Red Heart Super Saver yarn for the smiley ball emoji and his mask. It’s a 100% acrylic yarn in worsted weight. Although it sure feels a slight bit more on the Aran weight if you ask me! I tend to like a stiffer acrylic yarn for amigurumi. The reason why is you need them to hold up and keep their shape.

With regards to crochet hook, I like to use a hook that is smaller than I normally would. Actually I tend to use a size 2 sizes smaller than I normally would for that yarn. You want your stitches tighter and smaller so the stuffing doesn’t come out. Plus tighter stitches helps the smiley ball keep its shape much better.

I’m also using polyester fiber fill as the stuffing for our smiley ball emoji. You can use scrap ends of yarn as a filling if you do not have the fiber fill. If you have 2 small black buttons, that would work well for the eyes. They could either be flat or have a shank in the back.

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